Payroll Team Leader

Summary

Join Deel, a rapidly growing SaaS company transforming the global talent landscape, as a Payroll Specialist. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of payroll processes, adhering to all legal and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities include processing payroll, updating payroll software, ensuring timely tax and statutory payments, preparing reports, and managing a team. You will also handle payroll queries, explore process improvements, and conduct audits. This position requires a graduate degree, 7-10 years of India payroll and implementation experience, and expertise in Indian payroll regulations. Deel offers competitive pay, stock grant opportunities, flexible remote work, and additional perks.

Requirements

• Must be a Graduate
• Must have team Handling experience
• Must have 7-10 years of experience in India Payroll & Implementation
• Must have expertise of India payroll, Income Tax, Social Security ( PF, ESI, LWF, Professional Tax, Stat Bonus, Gratuity) & Labor Law

Responsibilities

• Responsible to make sure the payroll process goes smoothly and efficiently
• To help process head for creating or updating any new changes / legislative law and ensure it will be implemented and followed correctly
• Liaise with Operation Team for any payroll related mistake and inform the team
• Ensure the payroll software is updated in time for any tax related amendments
• Ensure everyday payroll runs in time and all deadlines are met
• Ensure Tax, Social Securities, Statutory payment & Statutory filing done on time
• Ensure team will get updated with all the payroll requirement and make sure they will follow the same
• Preparing weekly/monthly MIS reports & KPI and send the same to concern person in due time
• Ensure all the payroll documents are maintain and kept properly and produced upon request
• Review performance of the staff at regular intervals for improving their efficiency
• Rotate staff to the various payroll processes so that they all know all area of payroll and can be used in absence of another
• Testing new functionality on payroll system before it goes on live system
• Deal with payroll query emails and take required actions
• Explore new avenues of improvement
• Audit of the work of Team Members
• Migration of new client with end-to-end implementation
• Monthly activities deliverable agreed as per timelines
• Updating the day-to-day activity report to the management
• Quarterly activities verifying and filing of eTDS returns
• Form 16 filing and publish on time for client’s employees
• Coordinating with the client / GMP team to fix up the issues by preparing robust action plan
• Review of RCAs
• Training for new team member – Payroll and Compliance
• Preparation of MIS reports for management
• Manage team and attrition

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work in a team on strict deadlines
• Good with numbers, communication & computer skill
• Should be able to deal with query resolution via calls / e-mails
• Happy to work during weekends / Indian bank holidays
• Ability to manage the workload and conflicting priorities
• Liaising with team to ensure payroll tasks are finished within the deadline along with accuracy

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access